Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Part 1 · Chapter 51 — Panama Canal
§ 3618. Defense of Panama Canal
Statutory text
In the event of an armed attack against the Panama Canal, or when, in the opinion of the President, conditions exist which threaten the security of the Canal, the Administrator of the Commission shall, upon the order of the President, comply with such directives as the United States military officer charged with the protection and defense of the Panama Canal may consider necessary in the exercise of his duties.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Panama Canal Act of 1979
Pub. L. 96–70 title I § 1108 · 93 Stat. 452
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3618
(Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1108, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 458.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1108, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 458.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1108. defense of the panama canal In the event of an armed attack against the Panama Canal, or when, in the opinion of the President, conditions exist which threaten the security of the Canal, the Administrator of the Commission shall, upon the order of the President, comply with such directives as the United States military officer charged with the protection and defense of the Panama Canal may consider necessary in the exercise of his duties.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision